The ACG will host a discussion and luncheon with Lieutenant General Kai Rohrschneider, Director General for Forces Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defense.
Lieutenant General Kai Ronald Rohrschneider (1998 Young Leader) joined the Federal Armed Forces in 1983 as an officer candidate in the Armor Branch. He completed his basic military education in Armor Battalion 63 in Arolsen and joined the University of the Federal Armed Forces in 1984. He finished his academic education in 1988 with a degree in economics, organization and business administration. After assignments as a platoon leader and company commander in Munster and Cuxhaven, he was selected for the national General/Admiral Staff Officer Course at the Command and Staff College in Hamburg which he completed in 1998. After being assigned as the G3 Planning and Operations Officer at the Army Forces Command in Koblenz, General Rohrschneider joined the Advanced Command and Staff Course at the Joint Service Command and Staff College in Shrivenham in the United Kingdom in 2000. After assignments in the Germany Ministry of Defense and as Chief of Staff of the 37th Light Infantry Brigade in Frankenberg, General Rohrschneider assumed command over Armor Battalion 393 in Bad Salzungen in 2005. Following this command position, he was appointed as senior personnel officer at the Bundeswehr Personnel Office. General Rohrschneider was appointed Chief of G3 Division of the 13th Mechanized Infantry Division in Leipzig in 2008. Having attended the National Security Program at the Canadian Forces College in Toronto in 2011 and being appointed as the Branch-Chief for Security Policy Aspects of Bundeswehr Participation in Operations and Missions at the German Ministry of Defense in 2012, General Rohschneider assumed command over the 21st Armor Brigade “Lipperland” in Augustdorf in 2014. Leaving this position in 2016, he was assigned as the Chief of Staff of the US Army Europe in Wiesbaden, followed by an assignment as the Chief of Staff of the Multinational Joint Headquarters in Ulm in 2018, and in 2019, additionally, as Deputy Commander NATO Joint Support and Enabling Command. Lieutenant General Rohrschneider was appointed Director General for Forces Policy at the Federal Ministry of Defense in 2020.